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DOUG SAUNDERS

Is it Germany’s responsibility to send soldiers to war – or to keep them from it?

DOUG SAUNDERS

BERLIN — The Globe and Mail

Published Tuesday, Feb. 04, 2014 7:47AM EST

Last updated Tuesday, Feb. 04, 2014 7:47AM EST

Should Germany be a country that sends its soldiers into the world? That question has erupted into the centre of German political debate this week – and nobody missed the significance of the timing, exactly a hundred years after a very different set of German leaders plunged the world into three decades of war.